A final push for votes on a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks comes as the team opened its doors to fans Friday night.

The Bucks called their fan open house event, Own the Future, but with perhaps the biggest piece of the Bucks future, a new arena, still up in the air, supporters and opponents are putting on a full court press.

The group Save Our Bucks is urging arena supporters to once again to lobby state legislators.

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“Hopefully, they understand this is right before the finish line,” said Paul Henning, of Save Our Bucks.

Henning and his group launched a social media drive that triggered thousands of calls to lawmakers ahead of the recent arena vote in the Senate, and he's hoping for the same prior to next week's Assembly vote.

“We've been asking them to make a lot of phone calls and to tell their family and friends, and there is a little bit of burnout, so we're trying to keep the iron hot right now,” Henning said.

But the lawmakers won't only be hearing from arena backers. Mary Glass's group, Milwaukee Professionals Association, will rally over the weekend to urge the representatives to slow the deal down and include more Milwaukee stakeholders in the discussions.

“You don't have to be so gung ho. Take your time. You're going to ask the people to pay for 30 years. You mean to tell you can't take a month or so to really do due diligence?” Glass said.

The lobbying efforts, on both sides will kick into high gear on Monday, 24 hours before the Assembly is scheduled to debate and vote on the arena deal.